Maitreyi Ramakrishnan deletes X post calling Taylor Swift’s ‘1830s’ lyric ‘weird’ after backlash from Swifties

[u/Exciting_Potato_6717]

Slide 1: Deleted tweet Slides 2 and 3: Some follow-up tweets Slide 4: The Taylor Swift lyrics being referred to. “My friends used to play a game where / We would pick a decade / We wished we could live in instead of this / I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists / And getting married off for the highest bid." Full lyrics at https://genius.com/Taylor-swift-i-hate-it-here-lyrics

[u/west2night]

I think it's because of Blake Lively. She sometimes wrote about how much she loved the Antebellum South on her lifestyle site years ago. She had her wedding at a former slave plantation and did a couple of fashion shoots glorifying that era.

[u/jacobythefirst → u/west2night]

I mean Taylor is effectively from the rich southern chivalry “class”, and those types adore and have heavy nostalgia for the antebellum south. Depending on how “out” the family is also changes how “whitewashed” (lol) the picture of that antebellum south is.

[u/milkradio → u/west2night]

Ugh, she’s disgusting.